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See also: Reign
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- raygne (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English regnen, from Old French regner, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
reign (plural reigns)
- The exercise of sovereign power.
- England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
- 2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui[1]:
- Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
- The period during which a monarch rules.
- The reign of Victoria was a long one.
- The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: Imprinted for VVilliam Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:
- And the Fox guileful, and most covetous;
That neither pleased was, to have the reign
Twixt them divided into even twain
- And the Fox guileful, and most covetous;
Translations[edit]
The exercise of sovereign power
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The period during which a monarch rules
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Verb[edit]
reign (third-person singular simple present reigns, present participle reigning, simple past and past participle reigned)
- (intransitive) To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- He reigned in an autocratic manner.
- (transitive, rare, nonstandard) To reign over (a country)
- 2007, Anna Chilewska, Writing after the gaze: the rupture of the historical[2]:
- The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
- To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
- To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- Silence reigned.
- 2007, Richard Bawden, “Redesigning Animal Agriculture: a Systemic Perspective”, in David L. Swain, Ed Charmley, John Steel, Shaun Coffey, editors, Redesigning Animal Agriculture: The Challenge of the 21st Century[3], CABI, page 1:
- Unfortunately – and ironically – the word ‘system’ itself is used in such a wide variety of contexts within animal science, as indeed it is in virtually every domain of human activity, that confusion reigns about what a systems-oriented research programme actually looks like and what systems-oriented animal scientists actually do.
Synonyms[edit]
- rix (obsolete)
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
exercise sovereign power
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be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition
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be a dominant quality of a place or situation
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